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  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    News in-depthElectric vehicles
    Was Toyota’s bet on hybrid cars right all along?

    Japanese automaker’s stance on limited appetite for fully electric vehicles is being reassessed

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    A man inspects a Toyota vehicle
  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    The Long ViewLeo Lewis
    Will retail investors back Japan’s stock market breakthrough?

    After the Nikkei 225 index finally surpasses bubble-era peak, a psychological hurdle has been crossed

    Passersby look at electric screens, displaying Japan’s Nikkei share average
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Skin in the GameStuart Kirk
    30 years late, I’ve finally made money in Japan

    After the Nikkei’s record-breaking run, what should investors do now?

  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Investors eye further gains after Nikkei breaks through 1989 high

    Foreign fund managers have been buying back in but many domestic investors remain wary after long bear market

    A display shows the Nikkei Stock Average after surpassing the record
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Japan’s Nikkei 225 index eclipses record high after 34 years

    Benchmark tops highest-ever level reached in late-1980s asset bubble after powerful rally since January

  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Japan’s stock market is back after 34 years but the country is deeply changed

    Share prices may have finally overtaken level of 1989 but sentiment in Tokyo is nowhere near as bullish as it was

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  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    Why Japan may have outgrown ‘go for it’

    The word ‘Gambatte!’ is much-loved in the country’s lexicon, but could it be about to outlive its purpose?

    María Hergueta illustration of Sony stereo Walkman, wireless phone and pocky snack sticks and a drink
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Japanese brokers highlight ‘Trump trades’ for stocks

    More US-China decoupling in focus for investors as Tokyo market closes in on all-time high

    Staff at a trading company in Tokyo watch a live broadcast of Donald Trump speaking during election night in the US in November 2020
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    LexWarren Buffett
    Warren Buffett’s bet on Japan’s trading houses isn’t one to follow Premium content

    Famed investor’s timing was good. Others shouldn’t try to follow the Oracle of Omaha now

    Warren Buffett
  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    LexRenesas Electronics Corp
    Renesas’s shopping spree shows concerns about Japan Inc’s dealmaking Premium content

    The chipmaker’s latest purchase makes sense, but the country’s success rate for M&As is lacklustre

    CPU board with Renesas logo
  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    MS Amlin owner to ramp up London underwriting capacity

    Mitsui Sumitomo to increase capacity and jobs in Lloyd’s of London and the surrounding company market

    Mitsui Sumitomo chief Shinichiro Funabiki and figures including adviser Lord Philip Hammond at a February centenary ceremony in London
  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    Semiconductors
    Japanese chipmaker Renesas steps up deal spree with $5.8bn Altium bid

    Cash-rich Japanese companies are looking overseas for acquisitions as domestic market shrinks

  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Lex
    Robot stores will keep Japan’s labour costs down Premium content

    With wages set to rise, the convenience shop sector needs automation

    A man walks past a FamilyMart store
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Toyota Motor Corp
    Toyota Industries investor blames group’s ‘broken culture’ for data scandals

    GMO demands urgent corporate governance changes and further unwinding of cross-shareholdings

    Akio Toyoda at a conference in Toyota’s showroom in Tokyo, Japan in 2021
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Tech start-ups
    Toyota home ground becomes base for drone and space start-ups

    Aichi prefecture seeks to develop future forms of transport as next driver of region’s industrial growth

  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Japanese politics & policy
    Japan’s PM Fumio Kishida seeks summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un

    Tokyo hopes diplomatic breakthrough will boost premier’s domestic popularity

    Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Inside BusinessLeo Lewis
    Why an M&A swoop in Hawaii is a big bet on the yen

    Approach for Aloha state carrier seems timed to gain from a rally in the currency but there are factors working against that too

    A Hawaiian Airlines plane
  • Sunday, 11 February, 2024
    News in-depthAozora Bank Ltd
    Aozora Bank’s US property woes offer a warning to Japan investors

    ‘Idiosyncratic’ lender’s overexposure to office market is a reminder of possible risks in fragmented banking sector

    The front of Azora bank HQ in Tokyo  at night
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    LexSoftBank Group Corp
    SoftBank can get an Arm up from venture capital’s weakness Premium content

    Japanese group’s likelihood of scoring promising companies at a decent price is positive

    A SoftBank group logo
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    SoftBank Group Corp
    SoftBank profits beat forecast by wide margin as tech investments pay off

    Soaring value of Arm stake and T-Mobile share windfall help Japanese group break four-quarter streak of losses

    A pedestrian walks past a SoftBank branch
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    Mitsubishi Corp
    Buffett-backed Mitsubishi’s shares surge to record high on ‘monster’ buyback

    Japanese trading house says it will purchase up to $3.4bn in stock

    Mitsubishi Corporation logo
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    KDDI Corp
    KDDI bets on Japan’s greying shoppers with bid for Lawson convenience stores

    Mobile carrier teams up with Mitsubishi to take joint control of 15,000-strong chain

    A Lawson store in Tokyo
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    Toyota Motor Corp
    Toyota raises profit forecast as hybrid sales soar

    World’s biggest automaker’s bet on technology justified by a nearly 50% increase in hybrid-electric car sales in latest quarter

    A Toyota logo
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Investor activism
    Activist fund Elliott targets Japan’s biggest property group

    US investor calls on Mitsui Fudosan to stage ¥1tn buyback and sell stake in company behind Tokyo Disneyland

    Tokyo Disneyland
  • Sunday, 4 February, 2024
    Semiconductors
    Japan’s JSR in patent dispute with US university over breakthrough chip technology

    New York university complaint comes ahead of likely takeover of JSR by Japanese government-backed fund

    Employees work on a semiconductor lithography machine
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